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    Whats the one game that was the buggiest?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by xxbadboys93, Jun 27, 2009.

  1. xxbadboys93

    xxbadboys93 Notebook Deity

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    Well the title speaks for itself, what is one game that you think was the buggiest.
    I would have to say Gta san andreas and burnout paradise.
     
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    Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust

    ... thats the new one... major bugs.

    its giving the Unreal Engine 3 a bad name.

    I am trying to review the game, but am constantly running into bugs.... very annoying.
     
  3. avanish11

    avanish11 Panda! ^_^

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    Spider-Man. This was a stand-alone game not based on any of the movies. It was from I'll guess 2003-2004. Wow that game was the most terrible glitch-fest I've ever played in my life.
     
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    Lol, i remember that street legal racing was a pretty buggy game.
     
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    Qualao Notebook Consultant

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    Splinter Cell : Double Agent....

    /hate
     
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    Original GTA IV for PC. More bugs than a mexican meat market.
     
  7. xxbadboys93

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    Lets just put it this way all the gta games for the pc were buggy.
     
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    The bugs in GTAIV were nothing compared to the ones in GTAIII. GTAVC also had a bundle of bugs left unfixed. GTASA only had the hard-locked frame rate issue.
     
  9. Cheeseman

    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    1. America's Army 3 (unplayable the first few days)
    2. Armed Assault 1 (released too soon)
     
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    vanguard at launch and 6 months later... painful
     
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    Personally gears of war for the pc has been the buggiest game ive played.....
     
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    Signal2Noise Über-geek.

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    Two of the buggiest games I've played:

    Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor
    Age of Conan
     
  14. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Enter the Matrix. Hands down. I've never played a game besides that one in which you could actually get permanently stuck inside a wall by walking into it.
     
  15. Lethal Lottery

    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    Driv3r (Driver 3)
     
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    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    Not counting console ports, I'd have to go with either Sim Copter or Streets of Sim City. In the former you can get stuck in a telephone booth or occasionally a mailbox by walking into the side of it, the game crashes if your processor is too fast, and you get BSOD errors pretty frequently. In the latter it's just the frequent BSOD errors, which tend to be triggered by driving into a building, finding out it's not as solid as it appears, and falling into a bottomless abyss.

    Haven't got as many BSODs from them on XP as on Windows 95/98, but that's not exactly a good thing considering they came out in 1996. With XP they just tend to spontaneously quit because of too fast a processor if you don't underclock.

    More recently, I've been annoyed by some Medieval II Total War bugs. It's not the main game, though (I only had one CTD bug there, which was solved by patching) - it's the mods that tend to be very buggy.
     
  17. yotano211

    yotano211 Notebook Evangelist

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    the buggest game i have played where those Star Trek: Starfleet Command 1 and 2. now i love star trek and still do, but with those games i almost one time thru my monitor off my desk when i had a really bad time at work that day. now they wont work on Vista so i just threw them away.
     
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    LEGO Star Wars II. PC version wouldn't even start without a patch. Every platform version was screwed up... Amazon sent back their entire GameCube version shipment it was that bad.
     
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    Baka (・ω・)

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    Stormrise... They even cancelled the patch to fix the 39 bugs they found >.> Too expensive they say...
     
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    Bog Losing it...

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    You have to throw Oblivion in there when you have people walking into walls and CTD every 30 minutes. or maybe it's because I had 100 mods installed.
    ha
    cheers!
     
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    I thought Oblivion (stock) was fine other some minor AI bugs and such
     
  23. Peter Bazooka

    Peter Bazooka Notebook Evangelist

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    When I first purchased the Witcher it would crash almost every time I opened the inventory. It wasn't until the enhanced edition came out that I could actually enjoy the game. Beyond that I usually stay away from any console ports because they are usually bad and will not buy any game that is notorius for bugs.
     
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    No Oblivion (stock) was not fine. It had numerous bugs and unfinished bits and pieces. And even after Bethesda patched it, it was still left to the community to release a bug fix patch which apparently addressed some 800 or so issues iirc.

    To be honest though, most of the bugs are trivial things that don't impact on gameplay, not that I've ever noticed anyway.

    For me one of the buggiest games I've played is SimBins GTR Evolution (which is an expansion of Race07). Even when SimBin release a patch they introduce new bugs...
     
  25. xxbadboys93

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    Not really I have that game for pc and it didnt really seem buggy to me. I thought it actually played real smooth on my 3450.
     
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    LOL! Thanks for that. I ended up watching about four videos about it after that. How could anything like that make it into production? LOL!
     
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    well not all bugs are in game related......once i got it working it wasnt to bad at all gameplay was very smooth, but it required 7 different downloads to get the thing installed and loaded.........i ended up having to get a hack to bypass the windows live to allow me to play it......
    After i got it working the only issue was some checkpoints crashing, requiring me to add a later save file to skip to the next checkpoint............
     
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    another for "Vanguard: Saga of Heroes".......never have i regretted buying an MMO as much as this......SOOOOOO buggy!
     
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    hehe i just shook my head and wondered if the producers felt good about pushing that game out when the devs said it wasn't ready. the producers said we don't care we want a return on investment and push what ya got out. end result the worst game in history and investment is gone anyway and unrecoverable. Lets hear it for greed XD
     
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    joshthor 100% Crazy Sauce

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    OMG the Witcher is so far the buggiest game i have ever played....well... the installer is anyway. the game was fine, it just was a to install. :p it took me 4 hours to install the first time, then i replaced my hard drive and it took a reinstall of windows 7 twice to get it to work. lol
     
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    Funny how there have been two posts on the Witcher (non-EE), apart from occasional bugs due to corrupted save
    games I never experienced any of the problems relating to
    install or inventory.

    I've been fortunate not to buy games with a bad reputation for stability, so the minor problems I've encountered with the Witcher make it my call for buggiest game I've played.
     
  32. xxbadboys93

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    I have to say Steam games are really not that buggy. Steam has done a pretty good job with games.
     
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    Fixed for ya. Because Steam is a service offered by Valve and there are games such as Empire Total War (super buggy), while not created by Valve, available via Steam.

    ;)
     
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    Ya though valve does do a pretty good job. Half life 2 wasnt not that glitchy.
     
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    The original Metal Gear for the NES was by far the most annoying and buggiest game to date. It made you just want to throw the controller at the T.V.
     
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    And hence the Wii was born.
     
  37. xxbadboys93

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    What you guys think the worst buggiest system was?
    I would say game cube
     
  38. Red_Dragon

    Red_Dragon Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Burnout? Paradise? Really? I have it for 360 and it plays perfectly fine so i assume you are talking about the PC version then. This is one game i said to myself that i have to finish(yes i never finished it) :eek:
     
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    AoC when it first came out? lol
     
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    AoC? well most mmorpg's at launch are buggy, aoc was but not bad really.
    Vanguard: SoH was awfully buggy had all kinds of bugs and glitches, what happened a couple of times to me was grinding mobs for hours and then the game crashed i logged back in and I deleveled started at for instance 20 and logged back in at lvl 19.
    Happened about 3-4 times to me.
    Playing a druid in that game was a bad idea too lol.
     
  41. dtwn

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    Leisure Suit Larry on the Unreal Engine? That sounds... interesting, to say the least. lol
     
  42. own3d

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    How on Earth?

    Anyway on topic, Big rigs youtube review - LOL